Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Warner Director Michael Curtiz: "I had no idea about duck hunting, and neither did anybody else in the studio. But we all had to go. The casting director almost blew my head off. They put us in those damned trenches in the rain early in the morning, three, five o'clock, I forget. But that was the order from Zanuck...
...Betty, "sweet as a rose," who sits "Down in the meadow, where the green grass grows." Donald Duck was a "one-legged duck, two-legged duck, three-legged duck." In Seattle, the singsong went...
This week Peekskill let James know what it thought of him. In their full-dress blue coats and white duck trousers, the cadets marched in special review before him. Then, after James had completed his inspection, students, faculty and alumni went to the auditorium for a convocation. In honor of "50 years of long and faithful service," James Hankins was presented with a plaque, a chest of silver, two purses collected by fellow employees and alumni, a gold watch and chain. For the wall outside the dining hall there was a big bronze plate with the academy seal and James...
...adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt, he empties a shotgun at Elizabeth from a distance of ten paces-but misses. Abandoned by the party, with Scotland Yard and Army Intelligence closing in, he is more successful when he tries suicide...
...Duck & Work. It was a treasure to tempt any Scot, and in 1641 the Marquess of Argyll, head of the Clan Campbell, got King Charles to grant him the rights to fish for it. The MacLeans, however, were not giving up that easily. They built a stone fort on the shores overlooking the site of the wreck, and announced their firm intention "to shoot guns, pistols and muskets" at any Argyll diver who attempted to "duck and work" near the sunken wreck. In 1683 Captain William Campbell sailed the frigate Anna of Argyll into the harbor and ordered the divers...